Sam Smith says he's had to train himself to love his body even after 50 pound weight loss

The singer spoke about his former body image issues and the aftermath of his transformation.

"My body image is always going to be an issue."

Although Sam Smith joked with James Corden that he's "honestly down for getting fat again" (mostly because his dream is to simply "live in kaftans"), he recently opened up about the darker side of weight loss in an interview with V magazine.

"When I was shooting my first music videos, I just wasn't happy with the way I looked, so I was trying to control the way the camera moved," Smith said. "I got a bit obsessive. I was constantly looking in the mirror, pinching my waist, weighing myself every day."

After winning four Grammy awards for his debut album "In the Lonely Hour," the singer largely disappeared from the spotlight. When he reemerged, heralding his sophomore effort "The Thrill of It All," he had lost nearly 50 pounds.

Smith told Parker that losing weight has increased his comfort in front of a camera: "Now, I've gotten to a place where I really love my stretch marks and I just enjoy my body."

However, the " Too Good At Goodbyes" crooner also revealed that for him, "body image is always going to be an issue."

"I need to constantly train myself to watch the right sort of films, to not look at certain ads and think that's how my stomach should look," Smith said. "It's something that I'm fighting every day."

A part of that fight is the "self-indulgent" nature of his career. A high-profile artist like Smith must be self-aware at every turn.

"I have to listen to my voice daily," he said. "I make decisions on what tour posters or album covers look like, I look at my face while sitting in the makeup chair."

"I get kind of sick of myself," Smith said.

This is not the first time that Smith has been candid about his struggles with body image. He opened up to TODAY's Natalie Morales about his toxic relationship with food and how he grew " bigger and bigger and bigger" while recording his first album.

"From a young age, food has controlled me, basically," he tells 60 Minutes Australia. "When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat. When I felt lonely, I would eat."